Dawn Greenhalgh: key obituary facts
Is Dawn Greenhalgh dead? Yes. Dawn Greenhalgh died on November 6, 2026, at age 93.
Cause of death: Dawn Greenhalgh's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Dawn Greenhalgh known for?
Dawn Greenhalgh was a Canadian actress.
Dawn Greenhalgh, a Canadian actress known for her work in Babar, And Then There Was One and Maps to the Stars, died November 6, 2026, aged 93.
Born in Shanghai to British parents, she spent part of her childhood in a concentration camp during the Japanese occupation; her father was a civil engineer employed by the city water works. After the People’s Liberation Army took control of China in 1949, she emigrated to Montreal, where she completed high school.
Greenhalgh became known to television audiences as Allison Carr in the series Strange Paradise and as the voice of Queen Celeste in the animated Babar. Her screen credits also included And Then There Was One and Maps to the Stars. She married actor Ted Follows in 1958, and the two established reputations as stage actors during the late 1950s and 1960s. Their children were actresses Megan Follows and Samantha Follows, theatre director Laurence Follows, and playwright and screenwriter Edwina Follows. The family worked together on several projects, including a three-episode story arc on The Littlest Hobo. Greenhalgh’s work across television, animation, film and theatre included both on-screen performances and voice acting, with her roles in Strange Paradise and Babar among her best-known.